Keir Starmer Wiki| Biography| Height| Age| Weight| Wife| Net Worth| Family:Keir Starmer is a British politician serving as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2020. He was born on 2 September 1962 in Southwark, London, England, U.K. He has been Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015.

He grew up in a small town of Oxted in Surrey. His parents are Josephine Baker, a nurse and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker. Keir cleared his 11th exam and then was admitted to Reigate Grammar School. After than he decided to study law and took admission in University of Leeds for Bachelors in Law, he graduated in 1985 with first class. Keir then took admission in University of Oxford and received degree of bachelor of Civil Law in 1986. Following to that he went to St. Edmund Hall for his post-graduation studies.

After qualifying for the bar, he acted exclusively as a defence lawyer specialising in human rights issues and was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel (QC) in 2002. In 2008, he became Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), holding the role until 2013.

Elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 general election, Corbyn appointed Starmer as Shadow Minister of State for Immigration, a role from which Starmer resigned in 2016 in protest at Corbyn’s leadership, along with numerous other Labour MPs. In the 2014 New Year Honours he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and was sworn in as a Privy Councillor in 2017.

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Keir has been active as a Barrister and now into politics. His main earnings comes from these streams only.

In 1987, Keir became a Barrister from Middle Temple and later a bencher in 2009. Starmer was a member of Doughty Street Chamber where his primary aim was to address Human Rights issues. He also acted as a defence lawyer for several cases related to Human Rights.